2 September 1945

Paraded by the C.C. at about 1.45 and told the Armistice was signed at 9 o/c this morning and that we were now no longer Prisoners of War but that each and everyone was a freeman and that we would now be responsible to our respective Senior Officers for discipline but that for our own safety we must continue to be confined to our own Camp.

The Japanese would continue to be responsible for rations, transport and other duties for the benefit to the Camp. They have handed their arms over and we now have a Dutch armed Guard on; they have left the Camp and are living outside, protecting the Camp from the outside with the aid of the Military and Civil Police.

The last of the odds and ends dropped by the planes were given out in the form of a raffle. I got a tube of shaving soap (something I badly needed), a small carton of tooth powder, a tin of ham and eggs, 3 boxes of matches and packet of chewing gum.